SPRINGFIELD — In his quest to balance his first state budget without making steep cuts, Gov. JB Pritzker resorted to that old standby of lawmakers — sin taxes — to make the numbers work. Specifically, Pritzker called for a 32 cents per pack increase in the state cigarette tax, which would push that tax to $2.30 a pack. The governor also turned toward the increasingly popular alternative to tobacco cigarettes for another budget boost. He wants to apply a 36 percent tax to the wholesale price of e-cigarettes, just as the state taxes the wholesale price of tobacco products other than cigarettes...